It is with a strange feeling that those of us who come from the Soviet Union look upon the West of today. It is as though we were neither neighbours on the same planet, nor contemporaries -and yet we contemplate the West from what will be your future, or look back seventy years, to see our past suddenly repeating itself.And what we see is always the same, always the same as it was then: adults deferring to the opinion of their children; the younger generation carried away by shallow worthless ideas; professors scared of being unfashionable; journalists refusing to take responsibility for the words they squander so profusely; universal sympathy for revolutionary extremists; people with serious objections unable or unwilling to voice them; the majority passively obsessed by a feeling of doom; feeble governments; societies whose defensive reactions have become paralyzed; spiritual confusion leading to political upheaval.
What will happen as a result of all this lies ahead of us. But the time is near, and from bitter memory we can easily predict what these events will be.
Excerpt from "West's Betrayal of Civilization" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Last paper was a topic teacher picked regarding Ken Robinson and education, then he also added Paulo Freire to the mix. That was the idea I got from the limited reading I did about Freire...he wanted the line blurred between adults and children. So I added that to my paper. Referenced an article by Dennis Prager and the left's infatuation with the thoughts of children.